By default, PopUpCop plays a sound when a popup is suppressed.
Also by default, it plays no sound when a popup is allowed.
Both defaults can be changed, and the sounds themselves can be
changed. T o change these defaults, and to select the sounds
you wish to hear (if any) when either of these events occur:
Pull down PopUpCop's main menu from the
shield button.
Select Customize PopUpCop...
Select the Sounds tab.
Erase the contents of filename text fields to turn off
the sounds.
Click the Browse... buttons to identify the
file(s) containing the sound(s) you wish to hear when
either event occurs.
You can disable PopUpCop -- that is, cause it to cease
suppressing any web site behaviors -- by pulling down the
menu from the
shield button and selecting Disable PopUpCop.
So you can see PopUpCop's status at a glance,
the shield button is greyed-out when PopUpCop is disabled.
Later, when you decide to re-enable it -- that is, cause
it to resume suppressing annoying web site behaviors --
pull down that same menu and choose Enable PopUpCop.
Any settings and customizations you may have made previously
remain in effect.
One of PopUpCop's most powerful features is that it makes
it easy to select different sets of web site annoyances to
suppress as you surf the web from site to site. Do this
simply by sliding the slider
to the right for less restrictive settings (fewer annoyances suppressed)
or to the left for more restrictive settings (more annoyances suppressed).
For actions that you do often, it's convenient to have a button
in the toolbar. This enables you to do them with a single click
of the mouse. However, to avoid cluttering the toolbar, you don't
want all twenty-two of the buttons.
There are two types of buttons: those that enable and disable
suppression of the various web site irritations, and those that
perform useful actions. The buttons and their functions are described
in detail on the Buttons and Controls page.
To select the buttons you want, pull down the
menu from the
shield button and select Customize PopUpCop...
Choose the Setting buttons tab to hide and reveal
the various annoyance suppression buttons.
Choose the Action buttons tab to hide and reveal
the various action buttons.
To suppress an annoyance, click the corresponding button (if
you've chosen to display it in the toolbar -- see above) or pull
down the menu from the
button and select the annoyance you wish to suppress.
The procedure is the same when you
wish to stop suppressing a particular annoyance.
There are three pre-installed annoyance (irritation) suppression levels among which you can
select by means of the slider .
These are, from left to right:
Very annoying sites (Suppress most)
Annoying sites (Suppress some)
Sites with popups (Suppress popups)
Each level has an associated list of annoyances that are suppressed
when that level is selected.
Moving from left to right on the slider, the list grows shorter.
The list for the leftmost setting includes every possible annoyance with the exception of images and cookies.
The list for the rightmost setting include only popups.
You can modify any or all of these lists to suit your taste.
For example, the rightmost setting suppresses only popups
and is for many people the preferred setting. However, in addition
to suppressing popups, you may also wish to suppress automatic
browser window resizing. To add this suppression to this setting,
slide the slider to the second-to-rightmost position. Then pull down
the menu from the
button and select Automatic resizing is on.
If you look again at the menu, you will see that this item now
says Automatic resizing is off.
Henceforth, the rightmost setting will suppress both
popups and automatic window resizing. If later you slide the
slider to another setting, when you return to the rightmost
setting it will once again suppress both of these annoyances.
You have fine-tuned this particular irritation level.
Some users may wish to add or delete levels.
They may find that three levels is too few or too many.
They may also wish to change the order of the levels in the slider.
All these changes can be made by pulling down the
menu from the
shield button, selecting Customize PopUpCop..., and
clicking the Irritation levels tab. In this tab,
click New level, Delete level, or Order level...
as appropriate.
When the colored button turns red
you know that a popup has been suppressed. If you decide that you
do want to see the popup, simply pull down the
menu from the
shield button and select Show me that last popup.
PopUpCop keeps a log of the popups that it's suppressed.
You can find out what you've been missing.
To view the log, pull down the
menu from the
shield button and select Show me recently suppressed
popups....
If you spot an entry in the log for a popup that you would
like to see, simply double-click on it. You can achieve
the same result by single-clicking on it and then clicking
the Go to destination button.
If you wish to see not the popup itself but the web page
that generates the popup, single-click the entry in the
log and then click the Go to source button.
To prevent the log from growing forever and filling your disk,
its size is limited to fifty entries.
When the fifty-first entry is made, the oldest entry is deleted.
The technical term for this type of log is "first-in-first-out"
(FIFO).
Popup suppression can be managed on a site-by-site basis.
This enables you to choose sites from which you accept popups
and others from which you don't. You do it by editing
the Block and Allow lists. The procedure is described in
the FAQ.
shield button.
to the right for less restrictive settings (fewer annoyances suppressed)
or to the left for more restrictive settings (more annoyances suppressed).
button and select the annoyance you wish to suppress.
The procedure is the same when you
wish to stop suppressing a particular annoyance.
you know that a popup has been suppressed. If you decide that you
do want to see the popup, simply pull down the
menu from the